CREST workshop on

Computational Models of Auditory Processing

8-9, July, 2002

ATR (Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute)
2-2-2 Hikaridai, "Keihanna Science City", Kyoto 619-0288 Japan

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Technical program Abstracts Instructions for the presenters Group photo 1, 2 Participants snapshots1 snapshots2

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Introduction

A Japanese research initiative, CREST (Core Research for Evolutionary Science and Technology) has been funding a project entitled "Auditory Brain" for a duration of five years to promote research activities on computational aspects of speech and audio information processing. A workshop featuring introductions to accomplishments of the project will be held as a satellite workshop of ICAD'2002, 2-5, July 2002. Participants of ICAD'2002 are encouraged to participate in this workshop. The workshop covers the following topics including several invited lectures.

• STRAIGHT: An auditorily motivated speech analysis, modification and synthesis method.
  • Fixed point methods in source information extraction
  • Computational models of pitch and aperiodicity perception
  • Missing feature principles in auditory perception
  • Computational models for talker conversion
• Stabilized wavelet-Mellin transform as a computational theory of auditory processing.
• ICA as a mathematical abstraction of sound segregation
• Neuronal computation in auditory processing
• Long-term temporal structure in ASR
• Computational models of music understanding

Registration(closed)

Registration fee for the workshop is free. Please complete the following form for making registration.

Venue

• CMAP-CREST workshop takes place at the same location with the main ICAD'2002 conference.
  • ATR (Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute)
    2-2-2 Hikaridai, "Keihanna Science City"
    Kyoto 619-0288 Japan

Locations and hotels

• ATR is located in the center of the Kansai Science City, where many research organizations and universities are scattered to form several clusters.
• Please refer to the main ICAD web-pages for locations and hotels.

Invited talkers

• Prof. Fumitada Itakura (CIAIR, Nagoya University, Japan)
• Prof. Chris Darwin (University of Sussex, UK)
• Dr. Alain de Cheveigné (IRCAM, France)
• Dr. Makio Kashino (NTT Communication Science laboratories, Japan)
• Dr. Stuart N. Wrigley (University of Sheffield, UK)

Contributing talks

• Paris Smaragdis (MIT, USA)
• Hilmi Dajani (University of Tronto, Canada)
• Toshio Irino (NTT Communication Science laboratories, Japan)
• Masato Akagi (JAIST, Japan)
• Hideki Iwasawa and Minoru Tsuzaki (ATR, Japan)

Poster presentation

• Accomplishments in Auditory Brain Project

Program

Technical program

Instructions for the presenters

• Oral presentation
  • LCD data projector and transparencies are generally available.
  • Sound reproduction will be available.
  • 35mm slides are not available. If you do need, please ask our secretary.
• Poster presentation
  • Display area is 160 cm wide and 90 cm high.
  • Double sided sticky tapes will be available.
  • Please display your posters from the first day, if it is possible.
  • AC 100V 60Hz outlet are available upon request.

Organizers

• General chair and the primary investigator of the "CREST:Auditory Brain project"
  • Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama University/ATR)
• Technical program board
  • Minoru Tsuzaki (ATR)
  • Toshio Irino(NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
  • Kiyohiro Shikano (NAIST)
  • Masato Akagi (JAIST)
  • Fumitada Itakura (Nagoya University)
  • Seiichi Nakagawa (Toyohashi University of Technology )
  • Nobuaki Minematsu (The University of Tokyo)
  • Shigeki Sagayama (The University of Tokyo)
• Local arrangement
  • Toshio Irino (NTT CS-lab)
  • Parham Zolfaghari (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
  • Minoru Tsuzaki (ATR)
• Supporting staff
  • Tomomi Shima (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
  • Akiko Fukuyasu (CREST)
• Sponsor
  • Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)

Links

• CMAP-CREST snapshots
• ICAD'2002 web site
• ATR (Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute)
• Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University
• JST (funding body of CREST)

Contact

CMAP-CREST secretary
c/o Department of Design Information Sciences,
Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University
930 Sakaedani, Wakayama, Wakayama 640-8510, Japan
Phone: +81 73-457-8461  Facsimile: +81 73-457-8112
E-mail: cmap-crest@media.sys.wakayama-u.ac.jp

Last update: 13 July, 2002
If you have any questions, please contact cmap-crest secretary